Beyoncé and Jay-Z have also worked with the nonprofit HeadCount to get Americans to register to vote at concerts.
Enter an upcoming Ariana Grande concert and, yes, you'll likely see a swarm of excited fans. You'll feel the electric pulse of anticipation and spot speakers ready to blast. Oh, and you'll also see volunteers carrying clipboards, shepherding people toward voter registration booths.
But this includes more than just getting names on sheets. The idea is to keep in touch with people—who are often young—and keep them engaged, reminding them to vote and seeking to keep them involved in issues that matter to them. “It kind of started rolling, where they had this idea, ‘We’re already going to all these concerts… we have a network of people who go to these concerts, if all we did was register people to vote at these shows, we would be able to make an impact," Ghitelman said."Essentially with the idea that on any given night, at any given Disco Biscuits show, there are more people in the crowd than the difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush in the state of Florida in 2000.
Ghitelman said also HeadCount tries to engage voters, young voters especially, in a way that isn't preachy.Later in the conversation, Ghitelman—who said he's worked at more than 200 events over the last four years—added that he likes to focus on the barriers that keep people from voting. “It just seems like a no-brainer," he told Newsweek."Like why not, why wouldn’t we? There’s no good reason not to."
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